When they made the hanging gardens of Babylon they were like. Let me make the most awesome garden ever. Then they did it. Beastmode.
LOKI (2021 - ) 2.05: Science/Fiction dir. Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead
Illustration from РАДИО (Radio) magazine, 1962 issue no 8. The text says something like “space repeaters,” I think in relation to radio relays. The orbiting object resembles Sputnik-3, launched in 1958. The specific radio tower by Moscow on the map is the Shukhov tower.
Wonders of Science Simplified. 1943.
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Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do. I am going to write fire until it comes out my ears, my eyes, my noseholes—everywhere. Until it’s every breath I breathe. I’m going to go out like a fucking meteor!”
— — Audre Lorde, from “A Burst of Light: Living with Cancer,” The Selected Works of Audre Lorde (via lifeinpoetry)
Everyone in my life right now has propelled me to grow and to embrace creation. I am so grateful to feel inspired.
I say: Please. Let this spell grow legs. Let my sisters’ names grow long as their hair. Long as they need to. Let their names rattle the night air with their incessant lungs. Let the sounds of their names burn blue in the night,
Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On: Prayer for the Untranslated Testimony
Early 20th century, Japan.